Chapter Thirty-Eight New Mission

  The next day, several people boarded the return flight. Lu Xue did not come to see them off, and Xie Xiao Shuai acted as if nothing had happened, without any expression.

  "Captain, why didn't Xiaoxue come see you off?" asked Chuihua She Shen.

  "She's got something else on, so she won't be coming," Xie Xiaoshuai said indifferently.

  "What's going on, captain? Haven't you confessed to her yet?" Several gossiping men also joined in.

  "I say, you big men, why are you so gossipy? Why care about my personal issues? You'd better think carefully about your own personal problems. By the way, Gong Mao and Yin Zhilin, which one of you is actually paired with that female cop?" Xie Xiaoshuai quickly changed the subject.

  Yin Zhilin didn't respond, but Gong Mao looked somewhat regretful: "Don't mention it, it's all my fault. At the beginning, I wanted to establish a strong image in front of her, so I was a bit too harsh on her. As a result, now she runs away whenever she sees me."

  Li Gang's face lit up, and he ran to Gong Mao's side, hooking his arm around Gong Mao's shoulder: "I thought you little rascal liked the 'spicy hand destroying flowers' style, but it turns out you're actually smashing your own foot with a rock, hahaha!"

  Gong Mao pushed away Li Gang's hand and kicked him in the leg: "Get out. My heart is already broken, she now regards Old Yin as an idol, her eyes are shining when looking at Old Yin, I think it's probably hopeless, but that bastard Old Yin seems to be pretending nothing happened."

  "She's not even my type, if you like her, go chase after her yourself, why drag me into this? Besides, I'm still young and don't want to fall in love yet, with so much time on my hands, it's better to focus on studying." Yǐn Zhìlín suddenly pulled out that captured fruit phone from who-knows-where.

  Xie Xiaoshuai took a look and immediately rebuked, "Yin Zhilin, what are you doing? You actually dare to embezzle public funds, how can you let your fellow public security comrades view us like this? Moreover, mobile phones are prohibited items, you cannot bring them back into the barracks."

  Yin Zhilin hastily explained: "It's a misunderstanding, Captain! I didn't embezzle the goods. It was Tian Zuozhang who saw that I liked this phone and specially got it from the warehouse manager to give to me as a gift. Besides, isn't the main reason why mobile phones are banned in the army because they're afraid of being tapped? Don't you trust me, Captain? In this world, as long as I don't want to be tapped, who can tap my phone?"

  "Can it make long-distance calls?" Xie Xiaoshuai also became interested.

  "Don't you know who I am? You can even make international long-distance calls." Yin Zhilin proudly raised his head.

  "Alright, I'll report this to the team leader and see what he says. If he agrees to keep this phone, then we can use it for communal purposes. When we're free, we can call our families and chat with them more often. Since we can't meet in person, at least hearing each other's voices is better than nothing."

  Xie Xiaoshuai spoke with great righteousness, but in fact he had already thought of a small trick that only he knew about. The others didn't know what he was thinking and were still shouting "Long live the captain!" A drop of sweat slid down Xie Xiaoshuai's face, and he quickly wiped it away while no one was paying attention.

  Before the cheers of a few people had ended, the voice of the driver sounded in Xie Xiaoshuai's earpiece. "Chi Lian, this is the captain, there is an external call for you, I will transfer it to you immediately."

  "Red Flame, this is Cannon. The plan has changed temporarily, you won't be able to return for the time being. The plane will take you to your destination, and someone will arrange tasks for you when the time comes."

  Ren Tianqi finished speaking and hung up the wireless, Xie Xiaoshuai stopped the laughter of the Sha Hu Xiao team with both hands: "Don't make a fuss, the situation has changed, we can't go back for the time being, and now we don't know what task it is. So, everyone take a good rest and keep their physical strength to face unexpected situations."

  The plane's landing jolt awakened the Sha Fox team, and several people packed up their luggage. As soon as the cabin door opened, they slowly walked out, casually glancing around to quickly familiarize themselves with the environment.

  It was Xie Pingyang, Xie Xiaoshuai's father, who greeted them. The two men didn't take the initiative to greet each other when they met, both of them had a stern expression on their faces, just like sworn enemies meeting. The other members of Sha Hu felt a bit amused by this peculiar way of interacting between the father and son, but they didn't dare laugh out loud, so they just watched the two men stare at each other.

  The two men stared at each other for a minute before Xie Pingyang turned and boarded the troop carrier, followed by Xie Xiaoshuai and his squad of desert foxes, without saying a word.

  War Command Center, Xie Pingyang pointed to the map projected on the wall: "I won't say more unnecessary words. Your mission this time is to go to this area and eliminate the armed drug traffickers. There's only one requirement: you must annihilate them all, cut off the tumor of this country, and let more people avoid the disaster of drugs. You go prepare now, someone will give you specific intelligence about the task later."

  Xie Xiaoshuai and they just walked out from inside then bumped into Duan Ge, Duan Ge handed over the file bag in his hand to Xie Xiaoshuai's hand, patted Xie Xiaoshuai's shoulder.

  "Duan Ge, what's going on here? Why are we involved in the Bald Eagles' business? This doesn't seem right." Xie Xiaoshuai asked in confusion.

  "The situation is very complicated, I'll tell you about it later. You guys go and familiarize yourselves with the mission intel first, then bring enough supplies, we'll set out in an hour."

  In the rest room, Xie Xiaoshuai finished reading the task briefing and passed it on. The task was indeed a bit tricky.

  An armed drug trafficking group, relying on the advantageous location of the China-Myanmar border junction, has organized a huge drug trafficking network that radiates throughout Southeast Asia and parts of Europe. The two countries have organized multiple encirclements, but they were all informed in advance by the group, which hid and escaped, disguising themselves as ordinary people hiding among the crowd. Until now, neither country has any information about members of this armed drug trafficking group. It can be said that currently there is no useful intelligence, and we can only rely on them entering the area to slowly explore.

  The helicopter sent the Sha Hu squad to the liaison point, which was a battalion of border defense armed police. The battalion commander came to greet them in person, accompanied by people from the public security department, and it seemed that they had high expectations for the Sha Hu squad.

  A few people chatted for a bit, and then left behind a female police officer from the provincial bureau's anti-drug unit and a staff officer from the armed police intelligence unit to join this operation. The leaders of both sides had expressed their attitudes, and the two of them listened to Xie Xiaoshuai's command, letting them do their job freely. Everything would be fully supported by the provincial bureau, even if there were new developments that required purchasing drugs, as long as they informed in advance. These two people understood the situation of this drug trafficking group better than others, and they were also very familiar with the terrain and local customs of this area. They might provide some help to the Sha Hu Xiao team.

  In the afternoon, a female police officer from the anti-drug unit took Xie Xiaoshuai to the market to check out the situation. This was a very distinctive street, with vendors wearing Burmese ethnic costumes on one side and vendors wearing Chinese ethnic minority costumes on the other. Both sides were very aware of leaving a passage of over 1 meter wide in the middle, where pedestrians came and went, selecting their desired goods.

  According to the policewoman, this is the border between China and Myanmar. A street occupies the national boundary line. The drug trafficking group takes advantage of the complex situation here to smuggle drugs from Myanmar into the country. Also, because people from both countries can move around freely, it's impossible to capture the traffickers once they disguise themselves as ordinary civilians.

  This is a lively female police officer, who actively introduces herself to Xie Xiaoshuai and tells him what she knows. Xie Xiaoshuai also learns her name: Zhang Jia. She graduated from the Public Security University, had once dreamed of joining the army, but unfortunately, her family strongly opposed it, so she had to follow her family's arrangement and enter the public security bureau. Due to her excellent intelligence gathering and analytical skills, she was sent to this small border town specifically to track down all the movements of a drug trafficking group.